Florida's dark money playbook: How 'ghost' candidate scheme revealed secretive political tactics
Florida's "ghost" candidate scandal has revealed tactics and dark-money strategies influencing politics throughout the state.
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Florida's "ghost" candidate scandal has revealed tactics and dark-money strategies influencing politics throughout the state.
Florida's "ghost" candidate scandal has revealed tactics and dark-money strategies influencing politics throughout the state.
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A no-party candidate who ran for the Florida Senate District 39 seat in 2020 appears to have been placed there as part of a scheme in three districts to pull
Records show web of payments involving players in probe into sham Senate candidate Ana Ceballos and Mary Ellen Klas, Miami Herald © Joe Raedle/Getty Images North America/TNS A sign points the way to the Miami office of State Senator Frank Artiles, who resigned from the Florida Senate on April 21, 2017. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A young Republican political operative who is also the subject of a public corruption investigation into former Republican state Sen. Frank Artiles made an offer to a recent college graduate last September: He would pay her $1,500 to chair a political co...